colloquia schedule for SPRING 2008

Jan 16 Peter May, Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research
The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment - some of the meteorology

Jan 23 Gong Zhang, DAS
Microphysical properties of Arctic boundary layer stratus and their impacts on the surface radiation budget

Jan 30 Bob Rauber, DAS
RICO - From dinner napkin to publication

Feb 6 Edward Shimon, National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL
The July 19, 2006 Derecho Event – A Meteorology and Radar Review

Feb 13 Greg McFarquhar, DAS
The microphysical and radiative properties of tropical cirrus observed during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE): implications for climate studies

Feb 20 ROBERT Adler, University of Maryland
Satellite-based variations in global precipitation: Climate scale to floods

Feb 29 4pm SESE Joint Colloquia: Ron Smith, Yale University
Orographic precipitation and isotope fractionation along the American Cordillera

Mar 5 Jim Angel, Illinois State Water Survey
Review of recent climate events in 2007: The April freeze and August heavy rains

Mar 12 Xiaojuan Yang, DAS
Examining the role of carbon, nitrogen, climate, land use changes, and management interactions in the terrestrial biosphere

Mar 26 PINAKI CHAKRABORTY, Department of Geology, University of Illinois
The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: from water falling out of a glass to fire falling out of the sky

Apr 2 Murugesu Sivapalan, Department of Geography, University of Illinois
Water cycle dynamics in a changing environment: Advancing hydrologic science through synthesis

Apr 9 MATT GILMORE, DAS

Toward understanding the environmental and microphysical properties associated with significant tornadoes

Apr 16 Quazi Hassan, University of New Brunswick

A framework for modelling species-specific site quality index based on  data generated from remote sensing imagery and a process-based model

Apr 23 FAYE BARTHOLD, DAS

The spatial evolution of clouds and snow in a lake-effect boundary layer

Apr 30 DISTINGUISHED OGURA LECTURE: Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research

The flow of energy through the climate system

May 1 JOSEPH CLARK, DAS

Observed and reanalysis cloud fraction at a coastal location in the Arctic